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Michelle’s Wheat Belly health and weight transformation

By Dr. Davis | June 28, 2018

Michelle shared her Wheat Belly transformation in health and weight, something that none of her doctors helped accomplish. She accomplished all this on her own–with spectacular results: thinner, no longer a diabetic, reversed fatty liver, rashes, and hormonal distortions.

“Just wanted to share how unhealthy I was pre-Wheat Belly. I did not feel well and had diabetes, high liver enzymes, high cholesterol including high triglycerides, high ferritin levels, rashes and too many other things to mention.

“I started Wheat Belly because my life depended on it. Don’t let your health get that far. I have been on this lifestyle since the end of November, 2017. I still have 34 lbs to go, I could even go 50 lbs lower. But in 6 months, my cholesterol is normal, my A1C went from 9.1 (diabetic) to 5.1. My ferritin level went from a whopping 1538 to normal. (Nope, I don’t have the genetic disorder that causes this.) I was just sooo unhealthy.

“My liver enzymes, ALT and AST, went from the 200’s (non-alcoholic fatty liver which can eventually lead to cirrhosis that is not reversible) to normal. Rashes went away. I can tell that my high estrogen levels (caused by grains and other stuff in food and environment and caused me to have a hysterectomy because of estrogen dominance and because they couldn’t rule out uterine cancer) has gone down. Gosh, I may have been able to dodge that had I gotten on this WOE sooner! Even the hormones they gave me didn’t help. They only gave me severe panic attacks.

“Just think: All I had to do was change my diet. But no doctor told me that.

“All these things went normal in 3 month, but those numbers are where I am at in 6 months. I am 48 lbs down. NOW OFF ALL MEDS and considered non-diabetic.”

Is Wheat Belly about shrinking from XXL to size 4? Yes, it is, but it is SO much more than that, as Michelle’s experience illustrates. It is about reversing type 2 diabetes, fatty liver, skin rashes, hormonal distortions, and many other health conditions, not with prescription drugs, but by correcting the factors that caused these conditions in the first place.

ALL of Michelle’s conditions were easily and readily reversible, yet not one doctor recognized this. Michelle’s experience is not the exception; it’s the rule. I wouldn’t be surprised, in fact, if doctors blamed Michelle herself for her conditions, accusing her of gluttony, excess, immoderation. But the cause was conventional dietary advice coupled with medical ignorance.

The good news: Once you recognize that the doctor is useless, the healthcare system and prescription drugs offer nothing but Band-Aids, but that the answer is in your own hands, then you can be on your way to finding solutions. And look at the magnificent results. This is why I often say that the health that emerges from your own efforts is superior to the “health” the doctor achieves.

To be balanced, maybe the doctors are just married to their viewpoints and don’t honestly know that a diet like Wheat Belly can reverse these things or don’t know enough about the connection with diet and health. I’m sure others have no excuse though; I’ve met some fairly willfully ignorant doctors before. I do agree though with your closing paragraph though. Many MD’s are completely clueless about even curing basic ailments not involving drugs, ironically. It shouldn’t be given the name “healthcare system”. Their great for surgeries and emergency care, but little else.

DLM wrote: «…maybe the doctors are just married to their viewpoints and don’t honestly know that a diet like Wheat Belly can reverse these things or don’t know enough about the connection with diet and health.»

They’re mainly largely uneducated about it, and what little they are taught is incorrect.

re: «It shouldn’t be given the name “healthcare system”.»

It’s a sickcare system, and if you aren’t sick, you’re bad for business.

The program considers two:
• Omega-3 Index
• Omega 6:3 Ratio
CPT Code 82542 may cover both. Life Extension’s Omega 3 Plus (LC100065) or Complete (LC100066) tests cover both. Program target for ω3 Index is 10-12%, and for ω6:3 ratio, under 2:1 (but probably not under 1:1). The page for the test you asked about is too vague for me to say one way or the other.

re: «And for magnesium, I heard Dr. Perlmutter say that an accurate assessment of levels is an erythrocyte test.»

A tissue test is apparently the most accurate, but invasive, and I wouldn’t be surprised if expensive. The program suggests:
• RBC Magnesium
(CPT Code 83735, Life Extension LC080283), seeking a result near (perhaps even slightly above) the upper end of the Reference Range.

A common test to not bother with is Serum Mg (Analysis Code 2551SP).
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Their page is vague. The PDF download is even more vague. I’m not sure what they are measuring, nor what calculated markers they are presenting based on whatever they measure. We’d need to resolve those issues before contemplating considerations of accuracy.
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If they even provided a sample report, I might be able to form a more useful opinion than my present one, which is: “I don’t know.”

re: «I live in Canada so I’d need some kit that ships to Canada without horrendous fees. The choices are a lot more limited, but it’s hard to say if that’s just a market size thing, or destructive meddling by your medical guilds.»

I have very little insight on alternatives for Canadians. For such kits as I see on Amazon’s site there (which doesn’t include any Omegas), the pricing seems to be concordant with the exchange rate. I see that LabCorp owns a lab in Canada, but their site-locator here is useless for Canadians. What’s your ZIP code?
Exactly.
Likewise, LifeExtension fumbles on export/global issues.

One of the tests you can get is Vitamin D, and my guess that everyone in .CA except the Inuit are deficient unless supplementing. I blame the sun.
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Thanks Bob. I’m guessing that Life Lab’s test is good, but I don’t want to take a chance in case it isn’t (especially for that price). I’d ask my doctor or a staff member at the lab what they could recommend or to tell me about the test, but they’ve both seemed useless in the past when asking them about specific tests (especially my doctor). It’s kind of ironic how I’ve asked doctors for certain, important tests in the past and they just kind of change the subject all of a sudden, give a slightly aggressive tone or something else. It’s too bad they couldn’t do even a smidgen of research into these matters and educate themselves on what patients are passing by them

I’ve got no instant wider context for your situation (and this blog format is horrible for compiling back traffic), so I’ll just add that testing Omegas strikes me as a lower priority, depending on what suspicions are afoot and what else someone has already tested.

If cardiovascular disease is suspected, and there are no stents or CABG to confound the reading, a CAC scan might be the top priority, as it actually images the disease process (vs. the phrenology of LDL-C). An Agatston Score of zero is nice on that.

The NMR advanced lipoprotein panel you know about, and if it has concerning values, thyroid needs an enlightened look, as perhaps does Lp(a), all assuming, of course, that metabolic basics like FBG, PPBGs and HbA1c are in range.

Back on Omegas, if weight loss is in progress, now or in the 30 days prior to the draw, I’d expect both ω3 Index and ω6:3 Ratio to be distorted, because it would be measuring both current dietary PUFAs and mobilized stored PUFAs, the latter of which might reflect historical eating patterns.
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Also, I want to see if the supplements I’m taking are actually getting through (questionable with certain supplements and maybe during severe digestive problems) specifically the Nordic Naturals omega I have usually taken in the past. NN is supposed to be a high quality product. They even have assays on their website of mercury, pcb, and contaminant levels if you enter the lot number of the supplement. They look to fall below safe limits from what I’ve seen

Since my fasting blood sugar level has been creeping up I have been, for a few days, testing my blood sugar in the hopes of avoiding becoming diabetic. I find it very difficult to find meals that result in zero change. When you recommend zero change, do you actually mean zero change, or close to it? Obviously, I know that a 40 point change is bad – but what about 10 or less? Is that ok? I am using a $20 relion meter to test – is it not as good as others? Maybe there is a range of error on that type of moniter?

I’m sorry if this is the wrong place to post this question – but I didn’t know where else to go.
Thank you,

HbA1c: 4.0 to 5.0% (eAG 68-97 mg/dL)
A1c is a time-weighted moving average of BG, and is commonly now also reported as estimated average glucose, which gives people a consistent marker family in familiar units. National Affliction Perpetuation Associations, of course, have much higher targets for all of these numbers.

re: «Obviously, I know that a 40 point change is bad – but what about 10 or less?»

That depends on what the FBG value was. 80+10 might not be a problem. 120+10 clearly is. The 15 gram “net carb” guideline, by the way, was crafted to aid in building meals that are unlikely to provoke BG at all.

re: «I am using a $20 relion meter to test – is it not as good as others?»

It’s probably comparable to most consumer meters. A tip for gaining more confidence in your meter is to take it with you for any clinical blood draw for BG. Right after the professional sample is drawn, do a fingerstick. Later compare that Relion reading to the report the clinic provides.

re: «I’m sorry if this is the wrong place to post this question – but I didn’t know where else to go.»

No problem. If there’s no on-topic blog post open for comments, any open thread will do.
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Thank you for the quick response! I’m seeing what I think is strange results.
I guess other things besides food and drink affect blood sugar levels? This was yesterday:

7:30am – 121 – FBG – abnormally high for me
8:20 – 144 – breakfast was a protein shaker with a ripe banana. I guess this was expected – lots of sugar in a ripe banana (normally I have a green banana which has shown zero change but we were out of green bananas).
12:45 – 94 – before lunch – I had a salad for lunch with grilled chicken and avocado (no dressing)
1:30 – 100 – That I guess was pretty close to zero change.
4:45 – 93 – just to see (having had nothing to drink or eat since lunch)
5:45 – 101 – right before dinner (which was salad no dressing, one slice of pizza, heavy on the veggie toppings, very thin crust)
6:30 – 114 – 45 minutes later after dinner
8:30 – 121 – almost 3 hours after dinner – I would have expected it to be lower (I had nothing to eat and only ice water to drink in between)
10:00 – 103 – this was what I expected

Do those all look expected to you? I’m wondering if maybe I’m not drawing the blood correctly – sometimes not much comes out (even when I have lancer set to depth 10) and I have to squeeze some blood out.

What protein (and why)? Other than collagen (and even that’s optional), this program doesn’t call for supplementing protein. Although there’s a small risk of BG bump from gluconeogenesis of protein, the form of the protein could have additional effects (with whey and soy being forms of isolated protein to avoid).

As you’ve probably figured out, green/unripe and yellow/ripe bananas might as well be different foods from different planets, with ripe being essentially candy (similar story with raw and cooked potato).

re: «…we were out of green bananas).»

Some tips there:

• When shopping, look under the produce shelf for cartons not yet set out. They are usually down there because the are super green. If none in sight, ask a grocery clerk if there’s any greens out back.

• When you find an ample amount of greens, buy as much as you can manage.

• When you get them home, immediately peel, section, and freeze them. Yes, this completely violates normal banana stewardship, but for greens, going into smoothies, it’s perfect.

• If you run out of green unripe banana, take up the slack with some raw potato (or just throw some of that in anyway). Raw potato can also be frozen for smoothie use. Inulin is another back-up prebiotic for smoothies.

re: «12:45 – 94 – before lunch – I had a salad for lunch with grilled chicken and avocado (no dressing)
1:30 – 100 – That I guess was pretty close to zero change.»

That’s the response Dr. Davis describes.

re: «…one slice of pizza,…»

What recipe? We often have either Wheat Belly almond-crust or FatHead-style cheese-crust pizza, but almost anything else is at least going to be too high in carbs, if not present grain threats.

re: «Do those all look expected to you? I’m wondering if maybe I’m not drawing the blood correctly – sometimes not much comes out (even when I have lancer set to depth 10) and I have to squeeze some blood out.»

This is a holdover from a naturopath I saw a few years ago – before I heard of Dr. Davis. He helped immensely with digestive issues, bloating, chronic exhaustion, and a few other issues I was having. All the changes I made with him did not affect my weight (although as I said above, they helped with a lot of other issues), and my FBG was higher at this year’s than last year’s physical which is what made me search for more – it’s what led me here. It is sun warrior brand, and although I don’t have the box in front of me I know he is against whey and soy so I’m sure they aren’t in it. I measured BG today before and after with green banana and the BG change was nominal.

Thank you again! I will continue to read and educate myself on this.
Appreciate it.

You can’t use single enclosing angles on WordPress blogs. The engine thinks they are HTML markup, and either interprets it if valid, or deletes what’s inside, as above. That’s why I use «». More WP blog tips here.

re: «It is sun warrior brand…»

I assume that what you intended to quote was me asking about the protein powder. SW has a number of variants, some fairly harmless, others not so much (e.g. rice), and all providing protein you probably don’t need. If you are using one of their vegan products because it’s vegan, there are some deficiency risks you need to know about.

re: «I measured BG today before and after with green banana and the BG change was nominal.»

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